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Assessing Community Interventions to Reduce Smoking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Judith Mackay  and
Ronald M. Davis
Judith Mackay
Affiliation:
Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control
Ronald M. Davis
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control
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Abstract

Few major, community-based antismoking programs have undergone specific evaluation in developed countries; the number is even lower in developing countries. Yet not all evaluation need be elaborate, expensive, or overly time-consuming. Data on tobacco trade, import and export, taxation, mortality, and morbidity may already exist within government departments and can be used for evaluation. Published information from the tobacco industry may be obtained easily in trade journals and annual reports. Universities and international and overseas national health agencies may offer information, assistance, and expertise. Indirect evaluation of the importance of any particular antismoking intervention can be measured by how strongly the tobacco industry opposes that measure.

Type
Special Section: Assessment Of Preventive Technologies
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1991 , pp. 345 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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